For a century, the iron bridge was inaugurated by Napoleon III in 1861 that allowed the passage of vehicles between the dock Anatole France and the Quai des Tuileries. Built by engineers of the Pont des Invalides Paul Martin Gallocher of Lagalisserie and Jules Savarin, the June 1859 victory in the Battle of Solferino, which gives its name to the book. Weakened (including shock with the péniches), it is destroyed and replaced in 1961 by a steel footbridge, in turn demolished in 1992. 360° picts paris bridges. The new bridge linking Solférino Orsay Museum and the Jardin des Tuileries was built between 1997 and 1999 under the direction of the architect engineer Marc Mimram. It was inaugurated on 14 December 1999 [1]. Crossing the Seine one without arch support in the river, the metal walkway is covered with exotic wood. At each end, foundations in the form of concrete pillars sink fifteen meters below ground and its structure is an assembly of six elements of 150 tons produced by institutions Eiffel. The architecture of the book have earned Marc Mimram to receive the price of silver Square in 1999. panoramic solferino footbridge picture. It offers benches and candelabra walkers, who can join the garden of Tuileries by the underpass on the right bank. It was renamed the name of Léopold Sédar Senghor on 9 October 2006 on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the birth of it. In the Seine and watching the sky from this bridge, one evening, the French composer Claude Debussy had the idea to write one of his Nocturnes for Orchestra, named Clouds. paris pictures solferini bridge by night.
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